An executive from the Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC clarified that the company will not make a mini version of its One M9 flagship device.
According to Jack Tong, the president of HTC North Asia, the company is more focused on making devices with bigger displays, Techno Buffalo has learned.
The company started making mini versions of its mobile devices in 2013. These include the 4.3-inch One Mini and 4.5-inch One Mini 2, which served as the compact versions of the One M7 and One M8 respectively.
Given this trend, the public assumed that HTC is planning on a One M9 Mini variant. However, during a recent event by the company, Tong explained that HTC will be dropping its Mini line of devices to focus on producing handsets with bigger displays.
"Overall the industry is moving towards new phones over 5 inches in size and our product roadmap is close to that of the industry," the executive told the news outlet Focus Taiwan.
In support of his statement, Tong unveiled during the same event the HTC One M9+, which is a bigger version of the One M9.
The One M9+ sports a 5.2-inch 2k display with 2560x1440 pixel resolution. It has 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage.
HTC's latest device is powered by the 2.2GHz octa-core MediaTek Helio X10 processor and also features a fingerprint scanner on its front home button.
The device was unveiled in Taiwan and there are no details yet as to when it will arrive to other countries.
The One M9+ is the latest handset released by HTC. A couple of days earlier, the company unveiled the J Butterfly exclusively for the Japanese market. Like the One M9+, the J Butterfly has a 5.2-inch display with a resolution of 2560x1440 pixels. It is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor and has 3GB of RAM, NDTV reported.
